Test your basic knowledge |

NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






2. What are healthy sources of fats?






3. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






4. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






5. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






6. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






7. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






8. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






9. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






10. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






11. The higher the BMR a client has --






12. When does BMR increase?






13. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






14. Sources of fats






15. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






16. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






17. What is normal albumin levels?






18. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






19. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






20. What is RDA of protein?






21. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






22. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






23. What does DASH stand for?






24. Fats can lead to some medical problems






25. What type of people need extra protein?






26. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






27. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






28. When does BMR decrease?






29. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






30. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






31. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






32. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






33. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






34. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






35. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






36. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






37. What is the function of vitamin E?






38. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






39. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






40. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






41. Name six sources of grains






42. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






43. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






44. What foods have high quality protein?






45. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






46. What is the function of vitamin C?






47. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






48. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






49. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






50. What is normal BMI?